Never fear making mistakes. Many different aspects of life can be learned from making mistakes: 1. Communication. Being able to tell others you have made a mistake is important. Listening and responding to others informing you of your mistake makes you a better person, and hopefully changes people's perceptions. 2. Initiative. Fixing mistakes is the... Continue Reading →
Save Space on your Computer
Tonight, I'm delving into a topic that's quite relevant for many of us who are into computers: How to free up space on our machines. I regularly "defrag" my laptop to keep it running smoothly. However, I often encounter a problem where there's not enough room for the defragmentation process to work, and it ends... Continue Reading →
Surviving Change
My QotD: Change is good. Change is difficult. Whereas underestimating the value and importance of change is hazardous to one's soul and future. Appreciating the fact that change is inevitable is smart thinking. Even if it takes a little time to realise.
Into the Wilderness of Youth and Inexperience
I don't often review movies unless they have had a MASSIVE effect on me. Today I have two movies to watch, both recommended by some Facebook (of all places) conversations. 1. Into the Wild First a book, then a movie about the journey of Christopher Johnson McCandless. What you read below is as I wrote... Continue Reading →
The Power of Advertising on Social Media
As a graphic artist, I find advertising of my work upon social media is quite effective. Here is today's example of how much a little self-promotion can work: For the last few hours I have been updating my entire Redbubble Tshirt Collection. This has included editing a few works, changing fonts, adding text-shadows, plus lowering... Continue Reading →
Week of Comments
Here is my latest post-idea, which I really should have started doing MANY years ago. Below are comments I have left on sites around the inter-web. Those sites are linked within the comment below so you are able to go read the article to which it refers. 1. First time visitor to your site -... Continue Reading →
Re-Entering the Web Arena
I have held back for far too long in my self-learning of web design. Whilst I established my ability at coding HTML and CSS as early as 2002, I've not spent a lot of time since then expanding my knowledge. But now that I want to re-design my website to bring into the latest arena,... Continue Reading →
Breakfast Blues
Dear bread, butter, and Nutella™ , Next time I engage your services for the pleasure of making a breakfast to die for, please give me written warning that you may fall NUTELLA™ SIDE DOWN onto the yellow rug in my lounge room. /CC TIFF Dear TIFF, When did you want to tell me that cats... Continue Reading →
Why I Don’t Drive and Probably Never Will
When I was about eight-years-old, I got hit by a car coming around a bus. Admittedly I stupidly jumped off at a bus-stop, ran to the back of the bus, turned and ran across the road behind the bus. The two previous days I had made it across successfully and ran into the front-yard of... Continue Reading →